Overview
In Women and Property Rights in Indonesian Islamic Contexts, eight scholars of Indonesian Islam examine women’s access to property in law courts and in village settings. The authors draw on fieldwork from across the archipelago to analyse how judges and ordinary people apply interpretations of law, religion, and gender in deliberating and deciding in property disputes that arise at moments of marriage, divorce, and death. The chapters go beyond the world of legal and scriptural texts to ask how women in fact fare in these contexts. Women’s capabilities and resources in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim society and one with distinctive traditions of legal and social life, provides a critical knowledge base for advancing our understanding of the social life of Islamic law. Contributors: Nanda Amalia, John R. Bowen, Tutik Hamidah, Abidin Nurdin, Euis Nurlaelawati, Arskal Salim, Rosmah Tami & Atun Wardatun.
Full Product Details
Author: John Bowen ,
Arskal Salim
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Edition: Approx. 150 Pp. ed.
Volume: 8
Weight: 0.288kg
ISBN: 9789004385962
ISBN 10: 9004385967
Pages: 162
Publication Date: 01 November 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Overall, the book is recommended for scholars interested in the topics of women's rights in Indonesia and gender studies in general. The fact that all contributors have an Indonesian background provides an added-value, in the sense that the indigeneity of the researchers ensures a better understanding of locally-rooted legal concepts. - Muhammad Latif Fauzi, IAIN Surakarta, in: Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 175 (2019)
"""Overall, the book is recommended for scholars interested in the topics of women's rights in Indonesia and gender studies in general. The fact that all contributors have an Indonesian background provides an added-value, in the sense that the indigeneity of the researchers ensures a better understanding of locally-rooted legal concepts."" - Muhammad Latif Fauzi, IAIN Surakarta, in: Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 175 (2019)"
Author Information
John R. Bowen (Ph.D University of Chicago, 1984) is Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. He studies questions of Islam, law, and society in Indonesia and Europe, and his latest book is On British Islam (Princeton, 2016). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Arskal Salim, Ph.D. (2006), University of Melbourne, is Professor of Islamic Law at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) Jakarta. He has published extensively including his latest book Contemporary Islamic Law in Indonesia: Sharia and Legal Pluralism (Edinburgh University Press, 2015)
